Electric sports cars are officially here. The enduring question is whether or not this new hybrid obsession will spell the end of classic (low weight plus big engine) performance cars. I don’t now, but Chris Harris has a better idea of what the future holds than I do. He got to take the latest 918 […] More »

New photos Porsche’s 918 Spyder have leaked onto the internet courtesy of an indiscreet patent office in China. According to CarNewsChina, this is the final design for Porsche’s upcoming hybrid supercar. The photos appear to have escaped from a Chinese patent office. It looks pretty much exactly how we’ve expected. I believe that’s a good thing. […] More »

So our eyes weren’t deceiving us. Earlier in the month we spotted the 918 prototype roaming the Nurburgring with Martini’s racing livery in monochrome. Today, Porsche has let the scoop slip on their partnership with one of their oldest and most successful sponsors. The lucky few who are able to buy the 918 will be […] More »

Where they’re going, they don’t need roofs. The gorgeous, fast, and expensive MP4-12C Spider is officially out according to McLaren, complete with a hard-top retractable roof. It’ll only take 17 seconds to bring it down or put it back up. That’s not exactly fast, but we think the end result is worth it. It’s hard to […] More »

 Finally! Porsche’s next super sportscar is entering the prototyping phase with these new images to show it off. Evo magazine already got the chance to test the thing in it’s pre-production mule phase,but this is the first time we’ve seen the emperor with its clothes on. The paint is a cool throwback to the livery […] More »

Unlike a certain other video I posted about the Boxster, this video is actually in English–British English even!–so I can understand it! Brilliant! Anyway, I’ve always thought the characterization of the Boxster as a “hairdressers car” was unfair. Like the similarly maligned MX5, I think most people who make that argument don’t much about cars.